Backpacks in school?

[bluemagic]

Originally Posted by fuji

Not really a duffel bag, I don't know what to call it.

You put your stuff on the floor most of the time so as long as your bag can hold all the books then you don't need a backpack.

There's no way that would carry my books for even half a day.

Originally Posted by wmmk

Anyone have recommendations for good looking backpacks?

Tan/khaki canvas with leather straps would be pretty badass. Sort of like the Filson rucksack, but cheaper and bigger (and thus not as rugged or well made, but I'm ok with that).

I'm currently using my Sierra Club backpack, which looks like that, but I'd really like to upgrade to something more durable.

 

[obeserabbit]

Originally Posted by wmmk

Anyone have recommendations for good looking backpacks?

Tan/khaki canvas with leather straps would be pretty badass. Sort of like the Filson rucksack, but cheaper and bigger (and thus not as rugged or well made, but I'm ok with that).

no clue on the quality..

http://cgi.ebay.com/Luxury-Italy-Des...d=p3286.c0.m14

 

[wmmk]

Originally Posted by bluemagic

I'm currently using my Sierra Club backpack, which looks like that, but I'd really like to upgrade to something more durable.
Looks good. Do you have any photos of the inside or the shoulder straps? The Sierra Club website doesn't show those.

 

[brad-t]

skool is for loserz

 

[Mr. White]

I use an American Tourister backpack with wheels and retractable handle. $25 at TJ Maxx. I wheel it except on wet days. It has a cloth handle at the top, so I can carry it out of class or up stairs. The back straps are detachable and hide in a sleeve.

Most teachers use luggage carts with foldable plastic cartons bungeed on. About one in fifty students and about one in twenty teachers use a wheeled backpack.

The first time I saw wheeled luggage was with a Japanese tourist at an airport. Nowadays, virtually all luggage is wheeled. Wheeled backpacks are catching on the same way.

I'm in Robert's generation. Kids carried books under their arms, just as their parents did before them. Except I'm sure that in my father's schooldays, students tied a strap around them. My father left his chalkboard in his desk. I carried notebooks with me. My schools had lockers, but it was too much bother using it except at the start and end of the day.

Scientific calculators just came out when I was in high school. Only the rich kids who drove from the suburbs to honors classes had 'em. Fortunately, the books were pre-calculator, with square root of 3 over 2 and the like.

The first time I went up North I saw kids wearing backpacks. Looked very strange to me, as did the Catholic school uniforms everywhere. What was wrong with their public schools? What was wrong with their society that they wanted their public schools to be decaying holes of poverty and misery?

Backpacks are functional, but they are also a way to advertise that your family can afford them. Stylish messenger bags of leather--even more so.

 

[brohymn]

In the US, backpacks are the norm. There's just a lot more utility in a backpack and in our culture it's not really considered an article of fashion. I mean, sure there are like volcom backpacks for boys and polka dot backpacks for girls, but nobody would ever judge you for using a regular backpack.

Kids these days hold a lot more books than previous generations. I remember in middle school/high school my backpack was filled to the brim and that **** weighed like 40 pounds. There are studies out there that show a large increase in the number of back problems for young children due to heavy backpacks and stuff.

 

[bassmanpatsfan18]

I use a Lesportsac backpack at college. They make some simple looking and functional stuff for reasonable prices.

 

[Exit English]

About 6 years ago when I was still in high school I made a backpack out of Duct Tape. I was just that cool.

 

[MonkeyFresh]

I bought a filson 257 in tan and now ill never use anything else for school

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Pelikan2

Exactly. My Crim Pro book alone is 1600 pages. Add to that my bankruptcy text and 900-page statutory supplement, my conflict of laws text, my Macbook and anything else I need throughout the day - and a backpack really is the only practical solution.

I suggest something roomy like this:

 

[wagthesam]

What is the most neutral Fjallraven Kanken color to get? Black? Grey? Brown? Khaki? I'm thinking black will be too boring. Maybe grey?

edit: How much do those LV suitcases go for anyways? Something like 50k for a set?

 

[sharks9022]

America is the best country in the world, obviously we wear backpacks.

 

[lemmywinks]

I agree that there is nothing wrong with wearing a backpack especially for high school. Boys and girls. Sometimes girls will use a tote or something on her less books days but backpacks are the most practical and if you used a messenger bag you would look very pretentious. (One guy I know looks like a complete ************* because his face was ugly as hell and one day he came to school in tight ass jeans that complete do not fit his style and some ugly plaid shirt and finished the look off with a messenger bag carried parallel to his body).

Backpacks are fine. A backpack with a suit I agree is a look that only a few people can pull off. It's usually those people that wear Wayfarers as their normal glasses as part of that geeky dorky look that's kinda cool right now.

 

[Ozarks]

I miss backpacks some days. I broke my collarbone a few years back and now have this amazingly large mass of bone where it healed (twice

), so a strap on that side isn't comfortable. Distributing the weight on both shoulders, and having it centered on your back is a lote more comfortable.

 

[Mulch Diggums]

Originally Posted by bluemagic

I don't see how a law student could survive without a backpack. Maybe Europeans don't have to study very hard?
European (University of Stockholm law student) here. Most europeans study hard (It's true!) and I'm wearing a backpack. I guess it's not very popular (most people use messengerbags or duffels) but it's the best way to carry around your books without getting serious problem with your shoulder and/or back in the long run. After all it's 4 and a half year of studying in Sweden and if you carry most of your books around every day in a duffel or messenger for that period you're asking for problems. A lot of my friends dont even bring all the books that they need for a day, because it's too heavy or dosn't fit in to their duffels (but somehow they manage to write good exams so)